Pinter's brilliance against Portisch

7/16/2006 – His opponent was his famous countryman, the world super-elite Lajos Portisch.
But Jozsef Pinter, "only" a strong GM himself, took heart and played
a brilliant game in the 1984 Hungarian Championship to defeat Portisch. In
his Monday night Playchess lecture Dennis
Monokroussos looks at this inspiring effort.

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In the mid-1980s, Hungarian grandmaster Lajos Portisch was in the world's
super-elite, while his countryman Jozsef Pinter was "only" a strong
GM. In this game from the 1984 Hungarian Championship, however, the expected
roles are reversed: while Portisch certainly didn't play poorly, Pinter's chess
was brilliant. In what looked like a position where Portisch would have all
the fun, trying to milk a small edge in space and structure, Pinter proved
that the dynamic factors had not yet been exhausted. The queens were off, but
that didn't mean that it was an endgame or that Portisch's king was thereby
immune to all danger. Pinter was able to whip up a dangerous attack, and ironically,
the crucial piece in that attack – the proverbial straw that broke the
camel's back – was his own king!

So I hope you'll tune in this Monday night at 9 p.m. ET: it's an inspiring
effort by Pinter, and his strategy in the late opening/early middlegame, after
the queen trade, offers a fine model for Semi-Tarrasch and Gruenfeld players
alike, as we shall see. If you play either of these openings (or face them),
then this game will very likely be of interest to you.

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Dennis
Monokroussos is 39, lives in South Bend, IN, and is an adjunct professor
of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.

He is fairly inactive as a player right now, spending most of his non-philosophy
time being a husband and teaching chess. At one time he was one of the strongest
juniors in the U.S., but quit for about eight years starting in his early 20s.
His highest rating was 2434 USCF, but he has now fallen to the low-mid 2300s
– "too much blitz, too little tournament chess", he says.

Dennis has been working as a chess teacher for seven years now, giving lessons
to adults and kids both in person and on the internet, worked for a number
of years for New York’s Chess In The Schools program, where he was
one of the coaches of the 1997-8 US K-8 championship team from the Bronx, and
was very active in working with many of CITS’s most talented juniors.

When Dennis Monokroussos presents a game, there are usually two main areas
of focus: the opening-to-middlegame transition and the key moments of the middlegame
(or endgame, when applicable). With respect to the latter, he attempts to present
some serious analysis culled from his best sources (both text and database),
which he has checked with his own efforts and then double-checked with his
chess software.

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